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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTHERN history books, says our Atlanta bureau chief, Joseph Kane, contain many references to dastardly "Yankee journalists" who went South to feed on the carcass of the vanquished Confederacy. The antipathy has lingered into modern times. But in reporting for this week's cover story on the new South and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, Kane found as one sign of evolution a moderating attitude toward the press: "Even the courthouse gangs that run local politics are becoming more tolerant of itinerant reporters...
Boudin argued that if each Harrisburg defendant is not tried separately, the government will have to forego introducing letters at trial which contain incriminating references to other defendants who had no part in writing the letters. He cited Supreme Court opinions which hold that the idea that a jury can be instructed successfully to disregard such evidence is a "fiction...
KISSINGER'S solution was to split the Vietnam memorandum in two; the first part would contain a list of options on what to do about Vietnam, and the second would be a list of specific questions on the progress of the war. It was the questions part of the study-the first in what became known as National Security Study Memoranda-which Kissinger said had been designed to reveal the differing points of view. This he proposed to accomplish in an unprecedented way-by putting identical sets of questions to different departments, questions which, in the cases of most agencies...
What do four years mean? At least, for the graduating class, what memories do they contain? Is it so easy to forget Biafra. the distended bellies of dying children and the desperate mothers who had no milk to give? I am still trying to understand what happened Thursday night at the Dinner of the Class...
...tapes and pictures on King. The dossier included no evidence of any communist infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or control of King, the suspicion of which had prompted Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, to allow Hoover to conduct King's surveillance; but it did contain detailed information concerning Martin King's extra-marital sex life. "Pinned to the wall and warned about decency." King left Hoover's office and delivered a statement which, in effect, retracted an earlier accusation that FBI agents were unsympathetic to the civil rights movement. Adding, as Williams records, "There must...